“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.” – Stephen King, ‘On Writing’ Apologies to my parents for the frank weed discussion […]
Friday Links: Annihilation Edition
“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?” – Jeff VanderMeer, ‘Annihilation’ […]
11 Monster Books You Should Read
“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager.” – Stephen Graham Jones, ‘Mongrels’ Not sure what’s come over me, but the urge has struck me to write some […]
Friday Links: Traveling Is Fun Edition
“…I was too young to know what was routine and what was unusual, and how everyone mixes up the two. The dead leave us with trash to pick up and […]
Friday Links: Basketball, Queer Love, and Antifascism Edition
“Shooting around in the dark under the garage light…I always felt an intoxicating selfishness in knowing that I might wake the neighbors, but oh well, the ball was calling to […]
The Lazy & Entitled Reading Series Is Here
“I still clutch the sacred / scribbled long after the pages // wash out, little holes marring / the words. I look for the sun” – Bob Sykora, “Self Portrait […]